Silflay Hraka

Eric Muller’s phone is friends with drug dealers! Okay, I have no evidence to back that up whatsoever. In fact, I have strong reason to believe Eric (and his phone) are not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever. But he got a wrong number voicemail the other day from somebody who probably does live in the drugs & violence underground. It was a very funny and desperate voicemail. Hell of a wrong number, there, Sparky. Eric asksif anybody else has had a similar experience. Rather than threadjack his comments with a long cellphone wrong number tale involving drug dealers, I?ll tell it here.

Many years ago I moved to Washington D.C. for work. I bought a new cell phone, since back in the day, you couldn?t keep the same number for life, unless you wanted to pay roaming charges for life (while walking 10 miles uphill to grad school, each way). Besides, my new phone only weighed about 9 pounds and fit into an Alice Medium pack, unlike the 13 pounder that I had to carry around in it’s own dialysis machine bag before that.

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Between Andrew Sullivan, who claims to support the war in Iraq/on terror, yet constantly carps over the Bush administration’s prosecution of it, and, well, me.

Andrew worries incessantly about what Muslims think of us. I think Muslims should worry incessantly about what we think of them. It strikes me as an altogether more preferable situation.

At the very least, it would seem that worrying about the finer feelings about the adherents of a religion who are wont to riot in the streets over the physical treatment of a holy book of myths is beneath the citizenry of a secular, humanist republic.

The very fact that such riots occur should indicate that an attempted dialog with the participants in such would be worthless.

All in all, is it so much to ask that Andrew regard Muslims with the same degree of contempt he holds for fundamentalist Christians?

Update: It’s a start

I just want to say a short word of thanks for those I served with, and those who came after me and those who came before, and especially to those who gave all so that I could give very little, and so that most could get by with giving nothing at all.

First, to my family. They didn’t give their all, though they tried damn hard, repeatedly. I owe much to them. The men in my family serve. That’s what we do. Yes, we’re Scots and Irish, so maybe we come by it naturally as James Webb would argue, maybe we just like a good fight. Regardless, a long line of men in my family, especially on my Dad’s side, set the example I have hoped to live by.

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The 140th edition of the Carnival of the Vanities is hosted by the Alarming News this week.

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June 1st – Blog Business World
June 8th – The Conservative Edge
June 15th – Mister Snitch
June 22nd – This Blog Is Full Of Crap
June 29th – SophistPundit
July 6th – Conservative Friends
July 13th – Wallo World
July 20th – New World Man
July 27th – Pratie Place
August 3rd – Riding Sun
August 10th – Generic Confusion
August 17th – Willisms
August 24th – OPEN
August 31st – Incite
September 7th – Sorta Pundit
September 14th – Silflay Hraka – The Three Year Anniversary
September 21st – the skwib
Oc tober 19th – The World According To Nick
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According to this story’s headline, “FBI Memos Report Guards Flushed Koran.”

After going to the source documents at the ACLU’s website, I’m not sure the headline is accurate, or that the allegations should be given any weight.

As a lawyer, I know what proof is. At a minimum, it’s enough facts to make the occurrence of an event more likely than not. I’m not sure the collected allegations add up to proof. Let’s look at what is alleged about Koran abuse in those released FBI memos.

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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Freedom fries protester regrets war jibe.

Are You a Mosquito Magnet?.

I, like most of my direct family members, have never been particular bothered by mosquitos. When we gather with friends and spouses, lots of other people end of slapping bugs. It’s a genetic trait I hope to pass along to my children.

If I ever have children.

The Force is a Tool of Satan.

Alan Moore slams “V for Vendetta” movie, pulls comic from DC

N.C. church stands by sign saying Quran “should be flushed”.